Its not every day where coming across a loose hubcap on the side of the road brings random hilarious memories to the fore. Luckily for me, there was no one around to see me with a stupid grin across my face. If only they knew what had happened all those years ago... ago... ago....
**FLASHBACK SEQUENCE - make up your own visual screen wipe effect please**
The event in question happened years ago back during my days at High School, when we all lived our carefree lives at a run down public school before it became overrun by portable classrooms. (I swear, they have perhaps 10 of them by now, there were even a couple on the roof, how sad is that. They may as well just go and crane in a giant stack of portables and turn it into a multi storey learning tower of doom. Students climbing their way up to class, the ground below lined with old PE class mats to catch falling pesky year 7 kids... Now that would be fun.)
Oh look, I seem to have gotten myself sidetracked yet again. Better not let that happen again, lest it become like an episode of Family Guy. Though on the bright side, my narrative would be a lot more readable, though the numerous pop culture references and overly long musical numbers would certainly alienate many.
Going back to the story I've been promising for so long, I was walking with a couple of classmates when we came across a loose abandoned hubcap, all alone without any car tire to give itself any meaning in its existence. So this one classmate decided to go along and give it a new meaning in life as a Frisbee. Of course this seemed like a jolly good idea at the time, and we were all in approval in this sudden improvement in our otherwise Frisbee free lives. So he went ahead and did what most people did with Frisbees: he threw it.
Unfortunately for him, the hubcap's new found freedom was to come at a price. He managed to throw it a lot better than I had expected, and it ended up flying into the back of my friend's head 5 or 6 metres away. Naturally, I laughed my head off. It was like being in our very own Funniest Home Video segment, but without the annoying host and the phony laugh track. It was not long before I realised he might be the slightest in the leastest (lack of spelling intended, Mr Spellchecker) bit annoyed at that, plus it might have hurt too I suppose. Punches were almost thrown, and my afternoon became a lot more memorable.
**END FLASHBACK SCENE - FADE TO REALITY... Aww, not this place again...**
And now if you ever come across a hubcap lying on the street, hopefully you too will evoke my precious memory and have a good chuckle at this semi light hearted story. But what of our victim in all of this, whatever became of him? Well he went on to live a fairly brain damage free life, though he did eventually go to law school and join the Young Liberals. So really, you be the judge.
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